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Abortion and the State.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
THE DECISION BY AN American Catholic, candidate or voter, to support or oppose the criminalization of abortion is a political choice. When voting, the issue is not whether abortion is right or wrong; the question is whether the State should criminalize the conduct.
A country such as ours with a Bill of Rights cannot effectively enforce laws that do not have strong, nearly universal support. Prohibition is the classic example. There was too little support for the law to enable the government to enforce it. The population of this country is split on the issue of abortion. That means that if criminalized, some prosecutors and police would enforce the law, others would not; some juries would convict and some would not. Just as during Prohibition, chaos would reign.
A clear distinction must always be made between acts of the State and acts of individual members of the State. An execution is clearly an act by the State. However, failing to attend Mass on Sunday is an act by an individual member of the State. Therefore, it is not immoral to oppose a law that would make ...
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- Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) Crowder, Carla January 11, 1999 700+ words
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